gregoriantojd

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

gregoriantojd — Converts a Gregorian date to Julian Day Count

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intgregoriantojd
( int$month
, int$day
, int$year
)

Valid Range for Gregorian Calendar 4714 B.C. to 9999 A.D.

Although this function can handle dates all the way back to 4714
B.C., such use may not be meaningful. The Gregorian calendar was
not instituted until October 15, 1582 (or October 5, 1582 in the
Julian calendar). Some countries did not accept it until much
later. For example, Britain converted in 1752, The USSR in 1918
and Greece in 1923. Most European countries used the Julian
calendar prior to the Gregorian.

This function also ignores decimal fractions in JD dates, and it uses non-standard format for returning the Gregorian date.

So, if your JD date is 2453056.28673, the Gregorian returned value is 2/20/2004, not "2004-02-20 23:45:36"

The decimal part is important, since the Julian day begins at noon, for example 2453056.49 is on Friday, 2453056.50 is on Saturday. Discarding the decimal part means that your returned Gregorian Date will be wrong 50% of the time.